ROCKFORD - A Rockford woman was found guilty Monday by a jury of obstructing police investigating the Feb. 6, 2008 slaying of local attorney Gregory H. Clark.

Diane Chavez, 55, lied to Rockford Police Department investigators when she told them that her former boyfriend and tenant Richard E. Wanke did not live with her at 1113 Grant Ave., a jury determined.

Chavez and Wanke have denied any involvement in Clark’s killing and were never charged.

But they were considered suspects when Wanke’s court-appointed attorney Clark, 60, was shot in the back while shoveling snow outside his house.

Wanke was sentenced in August 2008 to 14 years in prison for burglary. It was a conviction Wanke had wanted reversed, claiming Clark provided ineffective assistance.

Police said that Chavez attempted to slow their investigation into the killing.

A former Illinois Department of Human Services employee, Chavez was previously acquitted of charges she tampered with public records.

Police investigating Clark’s homicide discovered that she brought home thousands of documents that included private information, Social Security numbers and medical bills of at least 10 public aid applicants.

Chavez faces one to three years probation for obstructing justice, a Class 4 felony.